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I believe it is because at one point Drupal was a pretty solid foundation for a lot of project types and was greatly flexible.

Right now WordPress is way more popular though.

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In a nutshell: it's a hell of a lot easier to get going on than Drupal. I've been developing Drupal sites, along with much more experienced (general and drupal specific) developers for the past 6 months. And it's not easy to get going on.

Also, Drupal is often coined a CMS. If you google "drupal is not a cms" you'll find a number of people referring to it as CMF - content management framework. It really allows you to build a custom CMS for a specific purpose rather than customizing a CMS for a specific purpose. It may sound like semantics, but if/when you have a few Drupal sites under your belt you really get what they mean.

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Wordpress and Drupal have similar features, but typically WP is thought to be more of a blogging platform while Drupal has a platform for not just blogging, but online community, e-commerce, etc.

Well, truth be told Drupal is 13 years old and WordPress 11 years old. I am sure that they both had a lot of time to add tons of features so I am thinking that the gap between them is more in theory, judging by their roots, and less in practice. I know that WordPress has for example BuddyPress for social networking / communities and a number of (free) e-commerce plugins as well.

Yeah not really that much of a distinction these days. People have built just about anything on WordPress. Community & ecommerce are both covered pretty solidly by the plugin ecosystem.

You can build a skyscraper using a hammer, but you probably shouldn't. It's the exact same argument with WordPress and Drupal. Drupal is vastly superior for most dynamic website tasks then WordPress is. Views + content types provide that.

Having recently attempted to migrate a D6 site to D7, I really can't agree. It was a nightmare.

Moving from Joomla 2 to 3 wasn't a walk in the park, either. Mostly due to modules that were installed that simply were not compatible with version 3 and didn't have replacements.

Worked on both as a dev and decided to use WP for our business that sells mid-six figures annually through our shopping cart, which is just modified WooCommerce. I don't agree that Drupal is vastly superior at all; maintenance and sustainment is far worse with the Drupal project.

I've had the same experience and the opposite opinion.

I guess that's kind of the point. It all works just fine if you're a decent developer and know what to outsource and what to avoid. The platform/framework/language wars are a useless waste of time.

what is it that exactly sells for mid-six figure?

Retail goods and informational products. Why does it matter what it is?

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